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A former Knox Grammar teacher is threatening legal action against the child abuse royal commission over what he claims was his unlawful arrest on a warrant and evidence that, he believes, defamed him.
Christopher Fotis, who taught at the elite Sydney school in the 1980s, appeared before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in April after being arrested on a warrant for failing to appear at an earlier date.
The commission heard in April that Mr Fotis had been suspected of being a balaclava-clad intruder who sexually assaulted a boy in his school dormitory bed in 1988.
Mr Fotis denied being the intruder and also told the court he had not known he was considered as a suspect until this year.
On Monday Mr Fotis’ barrister, Margaret Bateman, told the commission her client was “pretty cranky” about what he believed was “unlawful behaviour from the commission”.
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